Visiting family in Oakland for a few weeks. Say hi! Usually I live in Brookline, MA.

Introverted and quiet, except when I'm really, really not. I overthink everything but know it's a bad habit. I do the classics: that's Latin and Greek, although other things that people call 'classics' are yummy too.

I'm big on cuddling. I hope you are too.

CrossFit, yum yum.

I really love the wilderness.

Once I walked 12 miles through Wisconsin farmland for a day-trip and got bitten by a farmdog.

I'm in a long-term relationship with davrav101. We just moved into an apartment in Brookline, yayyy! And just to be clear, we like cuddling/making out/making friends/having sex with other people too!

Classics ---> mind. Secularism. I teach and that's going to be my profession, probably. Academia is all well and good, but I have notsomuch interest in abstruse scholarship divorced from teaching. I sing! Choral music makes the world go round, but a cappella is doopsie. I'm (eternally . . .) trying to learn to cook.

Dead languages. I have a really good falsetto.

I talk too fast.

Now reading: Augustine! Wittgenstein! Steven Erikson! Hornblower!! Also Samuel Butler (such a BAMF)!!! Forever slowly working my way through Shakespeare's œuvre (Henry V is delicious!). Neal Stephenson kicks ass, though Reamde was a slight disappointment. My favorite play, ever, may well be Love's Labour's Lost.

Middlemarch. Oh baby.

I've never read a book on anything but paper, and I probably never will.

Movies: black-and-white classics (Katharine Hepburn = goddess; also, Witness for the Prosecution et sim.) and science fiction. 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica. Doctor Who, Torchwood.

Don't ask me about music past the Beatles: I've memorized substantial amounts of Lady Gaga lyrics through sheer exposure but that's about it. (That doesn't stop me clubbing, though, in blissful ignorance.) Renaissance polyphony hellzayeah.

Food: spicy. I pretend to eat paleo, except I don't have any illusions that I'll ever give up pastry. Or quinoa. Or beer.

I play video games too, sometimes. I think the genre has real potential as an art form. Plus, dismembering zombies with a plasma cutter (for example) is extremely satisfying. XKCD and like diversions, of course.

I may describe myself as an introvert, but I think I would go crazy without someone who's good to talk to. The only other thing I can think of is "books", but that might be a cop-out. A chorus to sing with. Preferably with a Baroque ensemble for cantatas kthxbai.

the nature of the self. The viability of a nontheistic objective morality. Prosody of dead languages. Berryline. Other food. Typography! I *always* use en and em dashes correctly. And it's not a useless skill either: you wouldn't believe the money to be had in proofreading.

out or in bed. Hmm, I just realized that that's almost as uninformative as possible. But it's true!

Sometimes when I look at a person's face I see their skull and get really weirded out.

I always thought I liked tall men, but it would seem I like really, really short men too.

You think I seem like an oddball in an intriguing way rather than an off-putting way (there is clearly no middle option!). If you like to cuddle. If you want to go on a double date! Or, you know, a sesquidate. Or a normal date is good too, but "sesquidate" is such an awesome neologism that now I sort of want to have one and call it that. (Since writing that I have had several and divers actual sesquidates, and they are very pleasant indeed.)

Full disclosure, I'm in a cozy and gleefully nonmonogamous relationship, like it says up at the top.